Will Mexico City Run Out of Drinking Water? (www.scientificamerican.com)
America’s Hottest City Is Having a Surge of Deaths | Skyrocketing temperatures are colliding with a lack of planning in Phoenix that is contributing to a rise in heat-related deaths (www.scientificamerican.com)
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Havana Syndrome: We Don’t Need to Choose between Brain Injury and ‘Mass Hysteria’ (www.scientificamerican.com)
Puzzling Havana Syndrome injuries that have afflicted U.S. diplomats may have a more complicated explanation than solely pulsed microwaves or mass psychology...
The Summer of 2023 Was the Hottest in 2,000 Years (www.scientificamerican.com)
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Orcas Just Sank Another Yacht (www.scientificamerican.com)
Americans Are Lonelier than Europeans in Middle Age (www.scientificamerican.com)
Asbestos Is Finally Banned in the U.S. Here’s Why It Took So Long (www.scientificamerican.com)
In March the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that it was banning ongoing uses of asbestos. People might have thought, Wait—what? Wasn’t it already banned? After all, many remember asbestos—a naturally occurring, fibrous mineral that is resistant to heat and flame but is also toxic and carcinogenic—being...
Unraveling the Secrets of Near-Death Experiences (www.scientificamerican.com)
Unraveling the Secrets of Near-Death Experiences (www.scientificamerican.com)
Lifting the Veil on Near-Death Experiences...
Doctors Must Help Patients Avoid Deadly Heat, CDC Urges (www.scientificamerican.com)
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How Climate Disasters Could Destabilize Major Banks | Both climate-driven disasters and the clean energy transition pose risks for the world’s largest financial institutions (www.scientificamerican.com)
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Once-Hidden Hydrogen Gas Deposits Could Be a Boon for Clean Energy (www.scientificamerican.com)
Don’t Panic—At Least, Not about a Nearby Supernova (www.scientificamerican.com)
Is Earth Safe from a Nearby Supernova?...
How Bird Flu Caught the Dairy Industry Off Guard (www.scientificamerican.com)
Scientists Warn against Treating Forests as Carbon Commodities (www.scientificamerican.com)
Once-Hidden Hydrogen Gas Deposits Could Be a Boon for Clean Energy (www.scientificamerican.com)
Large stores of natural hydrogen have turned up in Albania, France and Mali
The Mathematical Case for Monkeys Producing Shakespeare—Eventually (www.scientificamerican.com)
In one of the most bizarre research experiments in the history of mathematics, researchers at the University of Plymouth in England gave six Celebes crested macaques at the nearby Paignton Zoo a keyboard....
Nearly 40 percent of U.S. homes have gas stoves, which spew a host of compounds that are harmful to breathe, such as carbon monoxide, particulate matter, benzenes, high quantities of nitrogen dioxide (www.scientificamerican.com)
Gas Stove Pollution Lingers in Homes for Hours Even outside the Kitchen (www.scientificamerican.com)
Decades of well-established research have linked nitrogen dioxide, or NO2, to respiratory conditions such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which especially affect children and older adults. This harmful link is so well established that some states have begun banning gas appliances in new construction. And now...
Why Are We Still Superstitious? (www.scientificamerican.com)
A psychology study published in 2024 suggests that very few people show a complete lack of superstitious beliefs or practices. So why do we remain superstitious, even though it is clearly irrational and could lead us astray? It turns out superstitions may provide certain psychological benefits....
How repression strengthens campus protests (www.scientificamerican.com)
A Dutch man with lymphoma and other blood disorders was infected with the COVID-causing virus for nearly two years, during which time the pathogen evolved numerous mutations (www.scientificamerican.com)
Do Insects Have an Inner Life? Animal Consciousness Needs a Rethink (www.scientificamerican.com)
A declaration signed by dozens of scientists says there is ‘a realistic possibility’ for elements of consciousness in reptiles, insects and molluscs....
Soviet-Era Pseudoscience Lurks behind ‘Havana Syndrome’ Worries (www.scientificamerican.com)
The Threat of a Solar Superstorm Is Growing—And We’re Not Ready (www.scientificamerican.com)
A growing body of evidence also hints that much more rarely the sun blows out a truly apocalyptic storm. Data from ancient tree rings and ice cores suggest that in C.E. 774 a solar storm hit our planet that was so powerful that it significantly altered our atmospheric chemistry. Similar data from even deeper back in time are...
